The research reported on in this paper suggests that people who buy hotels in Blackpool are doing so for a cluster of lifestyle reasons. Few have classic entrepreneurial ambitions to make a lot of money and own a chain of hotels. Many have a lifelong ambition to own a hotel, or some business that...

This proceedings tackles some of the dominant issues of interest and concern to hospitality researchers. It consists of six selected conference papers and a report on the 2006 Council for Hospitality International Research Conference. Majority of the papers cover issues exploring the management of...

Luxury is commonly said to be in the eye of the beholder. It typically relies upon the comparison with the given norms, and reflects the consumption patterns of society's economic elite. Research into the luxury retail industries have grown in popularity over the past two to three decades, with...

This research was conducted to find out whether demographics such as age, gender and working within different departments have an influence on the motivational factors of workers in the luxury hospitality industry. Questionnaires were filled out by 39 employees from the luxury five-star XYZ Hotel...

Despite the campaigns of the 19th century, there are currently millions of people that are enslaved across the globe. Some of these slaves are directly engaged in the hospitality sector, in other cases they are indirectly associated with the hospitality firms through sub-contracted supplier...

Women in leadership positions play an important role for the hotel industry as well as for society. The Pompidou Hotel Group wants to increase the number of female employees in leading positions. The purpose of this research was to find out the main reasons that women hold back from applying for...

Purpose - This paper aims to argue that hospitality educators need to develop courses that move away from the somewhat restricted programmes concerned almost exclusively with subjects deemed to be relevant to hospitality management. A more explicit concern with developing students' intellectual...

The vast majority of firms in the sector are micro-businesses employing 10 or fewer staff. Indeed many are so small as to employ no permanent staff at all. Those running these businesses are not classical entrepreneurs driven by a need to maximise profits and build a business empire. Many are best...

Business ethics provides a potential analytical framework through which to evaluate management practice in general and sustainability in particular. Management actions can be examined to the extent that they are good or bad, or legal or illegal, suggesting a four-quadrant framework. Ultimately,...

Low pay and other minimal benefits at work cause some people to be in a state of neo-slavery. They are nominally free individuals and are not the property of others, but their economic standing and power is so limited that they have to work for whatever they can get; and just put up with it. This...